Erling's Home

Photo of Bryne by Rune Sattler CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org One of the most famous footballers today is the still very young Erling Braut Haaland, born in Leeds, but firmly rooted in his home town of Bryne, south of Stavanger, in the Jæren region of southwest Norway. Today's lecture is about his surname. Like many Norwegians, Erling's surname derives from what was originally a…